Call for Proposals
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation. At the time of application, a proposal to present need not have been accepted, but must have been submitted. Reimbursed expenses can include transportation, lodging, meals, and conference fees.
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The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications from Northwestern faculty members for funding to conduct pilot research on sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed) throughout the 2019-2020 academic year.
Requested funding may be of any size up to a maximum of $10,000 per proposal.
Awards will be announced Spring Quarter and funding will be available as of September 1st, 2019. All projects must be completed by August, 2020.
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Deadline for applications: April 8, 2019
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SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation
We invite you to submit a proposal to the SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation as part of SPAN’s new Curricular Fellows Program. The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is a multi-pronged, critical, and interdisciplinary initiative to promote research and education on sexuality in social context. We are seeking to expand SPAN’s mission to include a curricular component designed to offer courses across a broad range of disciplines with the goal of providing undergraduate students with a solid interdisciplinary foundation in sexuality studies. (For more information about SPAN, please visit our website here.) These courses are meant to complement existing offerings in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (GSS), as well as to foster links between GSS and departments/programs that have not traditionally co-listed undergraduate courses with GSS.
Each SPAN Curricular Fellow will serve a three-year, non-renewable term. Our goal is to select three SPAN Fellows per year over each of the next three years, for an eventual total of nine Fellows at any given time. Any NU faculty member with a continuing or renewable appointment is eligible to submit a proposal, including professors of instruction.
Please click here for more information about the SPAN Curricular Fellowship Program.
For participating in the SPAN Curricular Fellowship program, SPAN Fellows will receive $2,000 in research funds.
Proposals must be received before 5:00 p.m. on April 8, 2019. To fill out and submit a proposal, please visit our website (or click on this link). The 2019-20 Class of SPAN Curricular Fellows will be announced during Spring Quarter, with a start date of July 1, 2019.
Substantive questions about the fellowship program should be directed to SPAN Co-Directors Héctor Carrillo (hector@northwestern.edu) and Gregory Ward (gw@northwestern.edu). Questions concerning the electronic submission should be directed to SPAN Program Assistant Cassilyn Ostrander (sexualities@northwestern.edu).
We very much hope that you will consider applying for this important curricular initiative.
Best regards,
Héctor Carrillo and Gregory Ward
Co-Directors, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
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Friday, April 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m. at The Block Museum of Art
In Person: Dirty Looks founder Bradford Nordeen
Dirty Looks compiles eight years of experimental screenings for a shorts program of signature delights that queer the pop canon and (under)mine history for all of her unanswered questions. Ranging from digital drag revisionism to post-bohemian celluloid, Dirty Looks: Eight Years On reassesses the past through a fiercely queer and politicized lens, asking “who brought us here?” and “where are we now?” This screening spins circles around contemporary queer subjectivities, snarling with a punk zeal and a utopian demand for more. In person: Dirty Looks LA founder and curator Bradford Nordeen
Presented by The Block Museum, Dirty Looks LA, and Northwestern’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association and the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
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Masculinities: Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times
September 12-14, 2019 | Istanbul, Turkey
Deadline: May 10, 2019
Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM) cordially invites proposals for the 2nd International Symposium on Men and Masculinities to take place between 12th and 14th September in İstanbul, Turkey, in collaboration with Özyeğin University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, and Research Worldwide İstanbul. The symposium aims to discuss how the current troubling sociopolitical context of populist authoritarianism, illiberalism, and precarity affect as well as transform experiences, discussions, theories, discourses and activism related to men and masculinities.
The current sociopolitical atmosphere is marked by rising authoritarian regimes in democratic countries, increasing repression of the opposition, the media, and civil society as well as strong anti-immigrant reactions and policies. Intertwined with this are increasing precarity, deepening inequality, and diminishing social security as a result of neoliberal economic agenda. Significantly, gender and sexuality are central to this broad context, particularly to the rise of illiberal, authoritarian politics. Issues related to gender and sexuality stand out as specific targets as shown in Gender Studies accreditation ban in Hungary, threatening of transgender rights in the USA, and attempts to limit women’s rights such as right to maintenance support after divorce in Turkey – as opposed to powerful manifestations of demand for gender equality such as the global “Me Too Movement”. How then are men and masculinities situated in this broad context? And what insight can studies on men and masculinities offer to enhance our understanding of the current sociopolitical atmosphere?
We invite researchers to discuss how masculinities have been (re)constructed in the broader context of authoritarianism and neoliberalism as well as how men have been shaping such processes. Additionally, we would like to deal with how this context affects the global movement for gender equality. We also aim to put under scrutiny the ways in which the current sociopolitical context affects the production of knowledge and theoretical discussions related to masculinities.
In order to contribute to these debates and to offer new perspectives, researchers from social sciences,
humanities, and liberal arts are invited to send proposals to discuss topics including, but not limited to:
• Role of men and masculinities in authoritarian political agendas, political organisations, policies,
and political discourse
• Influences of hierarchical divisions along national/transnational, local/global, and Global
North/Global South relating to men’s experiences and conceptions of masculinities.
• The part masculinities play in the ongoing wars, ethnic and religious conflicts, local resistance
movements, and collective visions for the future.
• Militarization, military expenditures, peacekeeping operations of transnational organizations, and
peace activism
• Sexualities, bodies, desire, pornography
• Intimacy, emotions, affects, subjectivities
• Neoliberal economic policies, structures of employment, sexual division of labour
• Sexual identities, ambiguity and fluidity in and queering of masculinities, performativity
• Influences of feminist and LGBTI+ movements on masculinity studies and their affinities
• Uses and usefulness of the current concepts of masculinity studies in the struggle against sexism
and heterosexism
• Masculinity studies and the hierarchies within the academia and the knowledge production
processes
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Raewyn Connell University of Sydney (video-conference)
Professor Jeff Hearn Örebro University, University of Huddersfield and Hanken School of Economics
(welcome speech)
Dr. Nancy Lindisfarne School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Professor James Messerschmidt University of Southern Maine
• The symposium will be held in English and Turkish.
• Applications are invited for paper submissions, panel organizations, workshops, posters, film screenings, and photo exhibitions.
• Graduate students are invited to sign in for the graduate forum in which they will have an opportunity to discuss their work-in-progress in an informal setting.
• Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and panel proposals should be limited to 600 words.
• Please see the conference webpage for submissions
• Symposium is free of charge for the participants as well as the audience.
• Please contact the symposium organisation committee for your queries.
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